Phishy yellow BTA, PICS

[blownz281]

Family has a house in Cudjoe key. he went diving years ago along the street acouple miles down towards marathon and we saw 100 or more lost count of flower/rock anemones all different colors on a cement barrier. by our house condy,carpets,curlyque. never saw and pest nems,or antlers. its pretty neat but a bright yellow would be cooler. i plan to get another BTA eventually as my GBTA just isn't colorful enough and needs a buddy.

 

[kimsie]

Wow - what a fun thread! Thanks for bumping it up! A great read - fun and very informative...

 

[drtrash]

What am I looking at? I pulled up link and all I saw was a pink BTA, what am I missing.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12476989#post12476989 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by drtrash
What am I looking at? I pulled up link and all I saw was a pink BTA, what am I missing.

huh?

 

[drtrash]

My bad, computer at work would pull up original photo.

 

[05TurboS2K]

Uhmmm all these photos look greenISH yellow to me. Excluding some that are with a flash.

As a seasoned Photoshop user and Hobby-level Photographer I wouldn't believe anything I didn't see in person.

I've done some basic diving INCLUDING BALI since my wife and I are considering moving there. I've NEVER seen a yellow anemone. I've seen plenty of greenish/yellow ones. However in actual natural lighting in the wild I've yet to witness one in any tropical environment. I would still believe there are no true yellow anemones.

I would also say that a LFS owner is typically going to support his claims and I'm affraid I can't take one's word as fact, especially over a 3rd party who's opinion is well respected and believed in the industry.

Lastly... GSMuy you sound quite arrogant when you already admit you made rude comments to someone when you were dead wrong in the past and now you aggressively fight with someone like Phender who has some real experience.


Just my .02 on the matter.

 

[maxxII]

I've done some basic diving INCLUDING BALI since my wife and I are considering moving there. I've NEVER seen a yellow anemone. I've seen plenty of greenish/yellow ones. However in actual natural lighting in the wild I've yet to witness one in any tropical environment. I would still believe there are no true yellow anemones.

What is "basic" diving?
Because you've never seen a yellow anemone diving, they dont exist? How many dives have you been on for frame of reference?
How deep were the greenish/yellow ones you saw in the wild? As a photographer and a diver, you should know that water filters out the red and yellow wavelengths of light at reletively shallow depths... 15 feet or deeper, yellow will appear more green to the human eye.

I would also say that a LFS owner is typically going to support his claims and I'm affraid I can't take one's word as fact, especially over a 3rd party who's opinion is well respected and believed in the industry.

I would agree with you regarding LFS owners typically supporting their claims, but who is the well respected 3rd party who is disagreeing with the LFS? Phender? The only posts I saw along those lines are these two from the 1st page:

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10540672#post10540672 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
Really? Because I had a yellow haddoni carpet for 7 years. My mertens carpet had yellow tips and so does one of the BTAs I currently have.

Not much of a stretch to imagine that the yellow could extend a little further down.

I do question their lighting and/or photoshop skills. The skunk clowns on that same page are a very odd color. The pink BTA looks a bit touched up as well.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10540819#post10540819 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
For a BTA to be that expensive in my book, it would have to be two things: rare and beautiful.

First, they have 2 of them, so maybe not that rare. Second, yellow, especially in this case is only a shade or two away from being brown.

At least zoas, echinos and acans are easy to keep. I would hate to see BTAs become the next big ticket item. Maybe they already have.

I dont see where Phender is disagreeing with either GSM guy or Serdar from PhishyBusiness. Could you clarify please?

Lastly... GSMuy you sound quite arrogant when you already admit you made rude comments to someone when you were dead wrong in the past and now you aggressively fight with someone like Phender who has some real experience.

Uhm....are we reading the same thread or are you confusing Dawman with GSM guy??

Might want to re-read the thread, and then apologize for that last statement....cause that's not what happened.

Nick

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12491733#post12491733 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 05TurboS2K


Lastly... GSMuy you sound quite arrogant when you already admit you made rude comments to someone when you were dead wrong in the past and now you aggressively fight with someone like Phender who has some real experience.


Just my .02 on the matter.

trust me you have no idea what happened in this thread.

 

[mobert]

New Gold Tipped BTA:

New Gold Tipped BTA:

What do you think? Here it is actinics only. It is very fluorescent yellow in real life. Under regular lights it looks more ordinary.

 

[GSMguy]

wow nice anemone, i hope i find one someday.

 

[05TurboS2K]

As far as Diving.... father has been diving since age 20... hes 50 or so now. I've grown up with the sport surrounding me through him. Directly and on my own my time in the water is limited but I'd say safely I have about 100hrs in the waters around Bali.

As neither photographer nor diver, nor graphic artist instead with only experience the fact that yellow is quickly filtered out even in shallow depth is fact to me. Being a bit of all of those it's even more blatantly obvious. To my own eyes the yellow begins to fade immediately and progressively, at just 10 feet it becomes apparent depending on daylight of course and then by 25 feet it is quite obvious to even a newbie. I much agree with your statement there. HOWEVER it is easy to see what we "know as green" when your at depth and then compare that to a "yellow" as seen with the human eye.

NEVER did I say it didn't exist... I simply stated my own personal experience.

Now as for my misread..... I'll read back through perhaps I mixed a name and got a non-existent opinion. I'll reply on that in a minute I'm a bit busy at this very moment.

 

[maxxII]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12495006#post12495006 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 05TurboS2K
As far as Diving.... father has been diving since age 20... hes 50 or so now. I've grown up with the sport surrounding me through him. Directly and on my own my time in the water is limited but I'd say safely I have about 100hrs in the waters around Bali.

As neither photographer nor diver, nor graphic artist instead with only experience the fact that yellow is quickly filtered out even in shallow depth is fact to me. Being a bit of all of those it's even more blatantly obvious. To my own eyes the yellow begins to fade immediately and progressively, at just 10 feet it becomes apparent depending on daylight of course and then by 25 feet it is quite obvious to even a newbie. I much agree with your statement there. HOWEVER it is easy to see what we "know as green" when your at depth and then compare that to a "yellow" as seen with the human eye.

NEVER did I say it didn't exist... I simply stated my own personal experience.

Now as for my misread..... I'll read back through perhaps I mixed a name and got a non-existent opinion. I'll reply on that in a minute I'm a bit busy at this very moment.

After Dawman's tempertantrums, can you understand why you got called out on your post?

Regardless, I'm jealous of your chance to move to Bali. I'd love to dive or snorkel in that part of the world...

Nick

 

[05TurboS2K]

ahhh yes....twas the case, My apologies there, dead wrong. Rarely occurs as I'm active on many types of forums but it happens.

As for Bali, I've much preparation to do still but it seems quite easy to survive there and highly affordable in some aspects.

 

[05TurboS2K]

oh and to Dawnman.....my comments foward then to you!

sorry!

 

[GSMguy]

What's nice is how polite people are on reef central compared to other forums like car forums, you would have been flamed heavily for that simple misunderstanding anywhere else.

Anyway apology accepted, i never took offense. Have fun Diving in bali that is one of my dreams i have never gotten the chance do dive in the south pacific it must be amazing compared to the Caribbean also lots of new wrecks where most of the wrecks in the Caribbean are around 80 or more years old the pacific has WW2 wrecks that must be amazing dives.


BTW i feel really bad for being rude to Phil as a n00b.